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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
why do neurotypical people love to do this. why canāt you say sam harris sucks in a normal way
Seeing a worrying trend of people wanting to cosplay as La Resistance, going dark, hiding from the cops. āFunā fact, the Gestapo was extremely good at finding, torturing and killing people in the resistance. If people only know you via encrypted messaging, who is gonna raise a ruckus when youāre sent to a camp?
Questions To Which the Answer is No, an ongoing series:
Generative AI - Can it actually help with the day-to-day technical work of a practising engineer?
The upcoming Autumn Panel Discussion hosted by the UCD Engineering Graduates Association (EGA) will take place on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, at ESBās Headquarters. This event will explore several pressing topics at the intersection of engineering and artificial intelligence. Attendees will gain insights into current trends in AI, particularly the latest advancements in generative AI tools and platforms. The discussion will feature case studies that highlight the successful integration of AI into real-world engineering processes, offering practical examples of its applications. Additionally, the panel will address the essential skills that engineers need to effectively incorporate AI into their workflows, providing guidance on upskilling for the future. The event will conclude with a Q&A session, allowing participants to engage directly with the panelists and delve deeper into the ethical considerations surrounding AI in engineering.
No, not software engineers, engineer engineers. Yikes!
unrelated but weāre all gonna get so many of trumpist brown-nosed sleazes as ambassadors now
it looks likely that we out there in poland might get georgette mosbacher as next ambassador. she was more of an lobbyist going hard against eu digital tax, but thereās much more
I am left thinking that many people here in the US are going to have a hard time accepting that having this person, at this stage in his life, as the national figurehead will do permanent damage to the USā prestige and global standing. Doesnāt matter if Reagan was sundowning, media was more controlled then and his handlers were there to support the institution of the presidency at least as much as they were there to support a narcissist. In 2016, other countries could look at Trump as a temporary aberration and wait him out. This time, itās clear that the US is no longer a reliable partner.
An intentional sacrifice of the USā role as head manager of the global economy is not nearly as well thought out as the people pushing it think it is.
plenty of them will just shrug it off as ācommie propagandaā and will ignore reality as long as they can receive coast to coast am, then blame dems for the bits they cannot ignore anymore
bonus points to former hilaryās consultants (or so i hear) running current campaign deciding that going to the right (who the fuck likes cheney?) was a good idea
At least their shirts will accessorize nicely
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hackernews having a normal one (EDIT: Then things got worse)
HN Title: The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800
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Hereās an interesting extract:
We find evidence of nepotism for 5ā6.6% of scholarsā sons in Protestant and for 29.4% in Catholic universities and academies. Catholic institutions relied more heavily on intra-family human capital transfers. We show that these differences partly explain the divergent path of Catholic and Protestant universities after the Reformation.
This relates to an important paper providing evidence that indeed Protestantism was associated with scientific progress: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4389708
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iād be more interested in jewish numbers than protestant or catholic
Ah yes, the famous European Jewish run universities. You donāt have to be an idiot to be anti-Semitic, but it certainly helps.
Audibly rolling my eyes
Atlantic writer: ābetter dubble down on Twitter huhuhuhhuhā
Calls to disengage from X, now that Elon Musk has turned it into a white-supremacist haven, certainly have a moral appeal. But if this election showed how difficult it is to meaningfully ādeplatformā speakers you disagree with, it also demonstrated the danger of ignoring the platforms where they speak. Unfortunately, the only way to change whatās happening in an echo chamber may be to add your own noise.
This is your periodic reminder that Steve Jobsā widow owns that toilet-paper factory. And that they still pump out hot new singles from hitmakers like David Frum and, occasionally, my personal favorite, Eliot āGW Bush Did Nothing Wrongā Cohen.
Story from .nl, after Wilders āwonā (he got the biggest share of the votes, and quite a lot more than before) the election last year, instantly the amount of horrible posts towards visible muslim people massively intensified (other groups, women, leftwingers and lgbt people (and the various intersections) also got worse replies (which on Dutch twitter always was bad already)). So this advice is so dumb, yes expose your people to more risk and potential burnout. And guess what, as we are a year in and most of Dutch twitter is still on twitter. It doesnt help. (And I cant tell, as switching to bsky has made me realize just how much of a breath of fresh air it is, but to me it feels twitter has gotten worse, but that is more likely explained by me getting better).
E: there is also the āthey need us more than we need themā factor. I have not seen rightwing Dutch trolls on bksy yet, Catturd however made the jump (and was promptly banned by everybody).
Mass media try not to cozy up to fascists challenge: impossible!
what in the absolute fuck
āyou shouldnāt do anything that works to resist fascismā is going to be the neoliberal siren call for 4+ years, isnāt it
Always has been.
It doesnāt even fit with the axioms of market logic! If the platform in question has terrible content moderation, primarily generates revenue from profoundly repulsive people, and was intentionally bought out to be used as the central propaganda organ for a destructive political movementā¦ why wouldnāt you leave?! Dude just doesnāt want to admit heās too lazy to redo his follows elsewhere
Unfortunately, the only way to change whatās happening in an echo chamber may be to add your own noise.
imagine writing something like this and considering yourself to be the adult in the room. just a big ol politics understander, writing and writing and none of it means a fucking thing. you get up every morning and somehow the dread doesnāt make you collapse back into bed.
I feel like we could solve a lot of the leftās problems in the US by building a time machine and giving 13 year old Aaron Sorkin about 10 lbs of 2024 weed.
Liberals: vote for us, we are diet fascism, we are the lesser evil! We reduce harm!
Itās been the siren call for the last 400 years.
My radicalisation just continues and deepens.
What deplatforming actually happened that this writer is referring to? āWe didnāt deplatform anyone. Therefore deplatforming badā ???
āweāve tried nothing, and nothing is working!ā this is going to be such a common refrain
God and thinking about it even a little bit:
Of course deplatforming works, you fuckface! Why did Elon buy twitter if not to secure a platform? It is surprising you managed to write anything at all, you stupid goblin.
In fact it was quite the blow for them, it cost him at least 44 billion, and massive amounts of attention. (Not as much as diablo 4 however).
Exactly!
Lawns are functional though, they arenāt just a status symbol.
I grew up with a mossy front yard, and I have clover and ferns in my current yards to compete with grasses; there are better options, my dude.
Weāre anti-grass lawns now? Fuck yes. I knew this place had potential.
Iām no landscaper so donāt quiz me on the options, but grass is in the lowest tier option for things to fill outdoor space with.
lawns in addition to other things are fine, but also all the stuff self said applies pretty hard
weāre lucky in ZA that weāre pretty good with getting a lot of this stuff out, which Iām often pretty happy about, but thatās an incident of geography (and personal location)
I was going to call them friendless losers who never had company over to play cornhole, have a bonfire, or lounge around on a hot summer day getting doused by a sprinkler while drinking beers because they are repugnant socially awkward cave trolls who are bitter and jealous of people who use their picturesque lawns.
But I would never do that because that is neither civil nor polite.
dang hates this one weird trick you can use to be an asshole in spite of the orange siteās civility rules
also what is that list of activities? did ChatGPT generate this? grass is required to play beep boop normal human games like cornhole now? youāre āhaving a bonfireā on grass and not in something normal like a firepit thatās safer on rocks or concrete? youāre just laying down on the grass, where the dog shits, slowly getting drunk and incredibly itchy from the grass as a sprinkler douses you?
picturesque lawns
oh maybe thatās it, the only people Iāve ever met with picturesque lawns are wealthy and wealthy people aināt fucking normal
Or you could just not water it, not fertilize it, not pesticide it and simply run the mower over it whenever the assorted vegetation (which will be mostly grass) exceeds a certain height.
It wonāt look ānice neighborhoodā nice but itāll still be fine.
i love when my yard is a giant mud patch rimmed by yellow with an occasional glimmer of green when the crabgrass blooms
the orange site is absolutely populated by the type of shithead whoās proud to be on their HOAās board
having a lawn is so easy first just hire a gardener to come every week, second live in a place where tap waterās inexpensive
motherfuckers
They can be, but they can also be a social and recreational space.
Your mumās a social and recreational space, but I donāt see you going to bat for her despite being more useful
Ah, copilot is so extremely popular that MS has decided to bundle it into O365 for
freea moderate ādepends by regionā price increaseIām sure thatāll totally make people want it even more! hordes at the gate!
todayās a fucking trip and a half
in a mall I saw some Honor laptop[0] ads with āAIā pitch sauce slathered all over it
later walking between art galleries I saw a roadsign ad for a property sales company promising āmore effective strategies using AIā (more effective strategies forā¦ sellingā¦ housesā¦? I guessā¦? (x up for doubt))
and now I get this shit in my mailbox from someone who absolutely purchased a dataset with this address in it:
From: Ai Everything GLOBAL <newsletter@event.aieverythingglobal.com> Subject: Join the AI EliteāG42, TII, DIEZ, Dell & More![0] - I didnāt even know they were in ZA, but nope, 2-floor hanging banners and ads allllll over elevator doors and shit
Personal rant: in my ongoing search for a replacement for ProtonMail after they pivoted to AI had me almost sign up with Tuta because, hey, they looked good and were on my radar originally anyway, when I found out that they do not offer any IMAP/SMTP access at all.
I mean, I get it, their whole thing is privacy and, yes, storing mail locally on my machine kinda undermines the idea of strong and impenetrable E2E encryption, but I should at least have the choice like I do with Proton Bridge. Because without SMTP Tuta is completely unusable for
git send-email. I mean, yes, technically I could copy-paste the output offormat-patchinto the web client but, first, I am lazy and donāt wanna do that, and second, from my experience it rarely works anyway because the clients do some encoding crap so thatgit amdoesnāt eat it without cleanup.Meh. I guess I have to keep looking.
huh, I just switched to Tuta and thatās a very good point ā there isnāt even a command line mail client, much less an IMAP bridge. the official word from a couple years ago is āwrite it yourself but we donāt support automated emailā which is several kinds of wrong
so far Iām not hating Tuta but itās definitely much jankier than Proton. Iām kinda surprised Iāve heard good things about Tutaāa UI compared with Proton ā itās faster, but functionality so far varies from somewhat barebones to mildly broken
no regrets on the switch on my end so far though, but this might come to bite me at some point. I wonder if a dedicated transactional mail provider could alleviate some of the pain? I can DM you a recommendation for a good one if that seems like itād be handy
Thanks, I thought about something like that as well, but figured itād be more hassle in the long run. I like to keep my mail in one basket.
But honestly, I feel like there just isnāt a good solution anyway. Email comes from simpler times and any encryption is bolted on and either awkward to use or has some problems with functionality. Hell, even Protonās bridge was a pain to get running properly with
send-emailbecause for some reason it insisted on reformatting outgoing mails. I honestly wonder if I should even bother at this point, because most of the stuff I use email for isnāt even private. Itās mostly corporate communication and mailing lists which are public anyway. All private communication goes over other channels (and some of which are arguably even worse than email, like Discord).Not saying that this is the conclusion everyone should come to and YMMV, but spending the last weeks combing through the email landscape this feels like the realization Iām starting to arrive at, because I want my email to just work.
thatās absolutely valid, and Iāve come to effectively the same conclusion: good encrypted email is effectively a different protocol (one which, as of now, is proton-to-proton and tuta-to-tuta only) and should be treated as one. daily unencrypted email is a legacy protocol that can effectively be handled client-side as a different account.
encrypted mail should be federated, possibly with something like activitypub (though I donāt have a good solution for attachments), but every time I float this I get a lot of very angry feedback about how I shouldnāt propose a new email standard without solving spam first, whatever solving spam means. some of the people giving feedback then float solutions that are basically warmed-over hashcash and then I stop listening.
the difference between modern webmail and what activitypub already does is very thin ā a lot of it is intent, UI (emailās focused on long messages and potentially long threads), and features like attachments going from best-effort priority to crucial. thereās absolutely room in the world for better email ā I just believe that internally, itāll look closer to e2e ActivityPub with something like Soatokās federated keyserver concept on top, rather than the shitty half baked shit we do now to make PGP work with email
what a terrible fate https://archive.ph/X2s3z
ābrb going to make an AI blockbuster called āZennos Parhadoxā starring Dwynne Johnson and Rebeca Fernugson and then weāll see whoās laughing.ā ā Dick Trauma, SA
what do anthropic, aws, and palantir all have in common? except for being the fucking worst, of course
the dollar signs in their eyes seem to share a bit of a glowā¦
Wild that āWe left OpenAI and founded out own company with alignment and safetyā-Anthropic decides to get into bed with Palantir of all companies.
Itās almost as if their whole safety shtick is complete bullshit. Hmm.
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Buy a defense ai system with a cool GUI but that absolutely doesnāt fucking work
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PRESS RELEASES
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Leave the source code+model weights somewhere that your enemies will find it, preferably next to a big data pipe
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Watch them copy it and try to use it on the battlefield
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lol
Just have to avoid naming it something that would give the game away like WIM-PLOW or whatever
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Less election dreariness, Dr Michael Cook talking about the oasis minecraft āgameā.
